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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WHAT FIRKIN PICKED UP ON THE ROAD. At the west-end of London, when George the Third was King, lived an exceedingly well-to-do butterman and cheesemonger, who married my mother's nurse, and to whose house I was allowed to make periodical visits, to my great delectation, as I was permitted by everybody connected with the establishment to do precisely as I pleased. I shall call my kind old friends Mr. and Mrs. Firkin, as their sons and daughters arc more or less connected with the family of the stuck ups; and I have no wish to give them pain, for the sake of their forebears, by parading their real patronymic in these pages, as they might not be so pleased with reminiscences of the butter-shop as I am. Mr. Firkin was, as I have said, exceedingly well-to-do, and, in addition to his shop in London, rented a farm of some two hundred acres about eight miles from town. There he grew much of his fresh Cambridge butter and sausages, and not a few of bis Yorkshire hams were cured in Middlesex, and, I have no doubt, were all the better for the home-care bestowed upon them. Mr. Firkin prided himself upon his farm and farm-house, as all about it was kept with scrupulous neatness. The stack-yard was near the house, and the roads about it were neatly gravelled, the hedges clipped, and the grass carefully mown. The house WHAT FIRKIN PICKED UP ON THE ROAD. and garden were always in apple-pie order, as Firkin.called it, and nothing delighted him more than to get a few friends to come down and admire and be most hospitably treated. He had the reputation of keeping a first-rate cellar and being no niggard of its contents. He and the parson were not the best of friends, as the latter was a litigious cock-fighting fellow, and Firkin had too much respect for the Church to countenance ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217646130 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217646131 |
| Weight | 0.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 112 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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